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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Simone Weil

God’s love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God’s love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.
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God Love Ourselves Reason
Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.
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Art Destruction Effort Human Noble
To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.
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Human Important Need Recognition Soul
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
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Attention Caring Generosity Kindness Purity
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
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Himself Intelligence Men Pride Proud
When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.
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Authority Class Life Men Murder People Spiritual
There are only two things that pierce the human heart. One is beauty. The other is affliction.
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Beauty Heart Human Pain Wisdom
Truth is sought not because it is truth but because it is good.
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Goodness Truth Wisdom
The love of our neighbor in all its fullness simply means being able to say, “What are you going through?
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Friendship Inspirational Love Simplicity Yourself
At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and is never appeased by any object in this world.
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Goodness Heart Human Object World
We only possess what we renounce; what we do not renounce escapes from us.
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Escape Ourselves Possession
The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.
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Hope Love Soul Transformation Virtue
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
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Empty Grace Inspirational Space
It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves.
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Mistake Ourselves Understand
Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.
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Doubt Pain Trying
Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual life.
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Expectation Foundation Life Spiritual

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